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Counterpart Lease: 33 years. £70 per annum. (i) Edward Osborn of the Inner Temple and Northill esquire, son and heir of Edward and wife Alice (daughter of William Boteler of Biddenham), deceased. (ii) Edward Sutton of Northill yeoman. Recites Fine (HY107).

25 April 1678

From: 1678 To: 1678

-- manor house etc., with barns, stables and granaries, the great gatehouse next the street, 2 dovehouses with the gardens, the great orchard and little orchard, with the little pightle of sward ground within the compass of the homestall lying on the east side of the pease or wheat barn, commonly called the homestall pightle; 2 great “witch” elm trees “that are standing outside the wall of the college on the west side in the common street, before the common gate called the Foregate, Horsegate or Cowgate, near the great gate”; 3 other elms “near the outside wall in the common street on the west side, over against the churchyard wall”; and all other trees outside, on the south side and near the east and north side; 3 seats in the body of the church of Northill, at the upper end of the middlealley next the chancel on the north side called the College of Northill pews; 1 pew for the owner or tenant of the College house “to sit in with his wife and children”, 1 for the women servants and 1 for the men servants”; 108 acres arable with a parcel of ground called the College pond or College Willows and a parcel called the College pits; 12 acres river meadow, in Langlake, Millholme and Wide Fann; close called Cooks, Blackcroft, Rightscroft, South Pinchen close, Brick, Horse, Cow, Hall orchard and Barr; Drewell’s wood and Stacy wood; the tithes; except 1 upper chamber above stairs called the great dining chamber, the great study over the porch, a lodging chamber at the north end of the dining chamber between that and the stairs called the serving chamber, the living chamber within the serving chamber over the great entry, 1 lower room below stairs called the great buttery next the entry and the foot of the great stairs and under the stairs; 1 coal-house under the entry, for Osborn “to lay his coals in”; the great green yard next the great garden and house of office, for him to lay his firewood in , and free passage thereto; also except free passage for the Grocer’s Company of London farmers of the great tithes of Beeston, Thorncote, Hatch, Budenhoe, Brook End, to their great barn next the great gates called Beeston and Thorncote tithe barn; also all oak trees. Witnesses: William Green, Henry Killworth, William Tompkins, Richard Ravens, John Merrill, John Green, Richard Lee.

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Osborn, Edward,
Osborn, Alice,
Boteler, William,
Sutton, Edward,
Green, William,
Grocers Company,
Killworth, Henry,
Tompkins, William,
Ravens, Richard,
Merrill, John,
Green, John,
Lee, Richard

NORTHILL, London Inner Temple, BIDDENHAM, Beeston, Thorncote, Hatch, Budnoe, Northill Brook End, field names, Northill fields